Almond was curious, and couldn't help but ask the person behind her.

"Hey! Fourteen, doesn't your prince have a wife or concubine? ”

Fourteen had a blank face, unresponsive.

Almond felt bored, thought about it, and stepped into a courtyard.

The scenery of this courtyard is extremely beautiful, but the weeds grow indiscriminately, making the scenery look a little desolate.

There is a well in the courtyard, and there is a plum tree next to the well, and the plum blossoms are budding and waiting to be released, which adds a bit of vitality to the courtyard.

The plum blossom is not yet fully blooming, but its fragrance is already far away, and even the almonds standing in the door can be smelled.

Almond suddenly remembered that when he was a child, his mother had picked plum to make tea, and the taste was fresh and elegant, and the mouth was fragrant.

Even she, a person who doesn't understand tea, thinks it's very delicious.

The prince seems to like tea, right?

The first few times I saw him, everyone else drank in a big gulp, but he was the only one who drank a teacup in an elegant sip.

Thinking of this, Almond had an idea in his heart.

Since the prince likes to drink tea, why should she go pick some plums and come back?

Then find a sunny day, expose the plum to the courtyard, dry it and save it to make tea directly.

It's better to act than to move, and Almond immediately stepped into the grass with his robe.

The weeds grew a little taller, and by the time she reached the plum tree, her robe was stained with some grass clippings.

But she didn't care, when she was a child, she ran around the mountains and fields, and she was used to it.

It had not been a tree for a long time, and Almond moved his limbs, then grabbed the low branch, kicked his legs on the main trunk, and climbed up.

The plum tree is relatively thin, and its branches are not very tolerant.

Fortunately, the almonds are relatively light, and when they sit closer to the main trunk, the plum tree will not shake in the slightest.

She sat on it like this, shaking her legs and plucking the flowers around her.

And the flowers that were plucked were carried around in their robes so that they would not be scattered.

Fourteen stood on the main road outside the grass, looking at her from afar.

Almond laughed in her heart, this wood-like secret guard finally didn't follow, maybe she disliked the weeds that were too lush?

Almond doesn't care about him, just watch it if she likes it, she just cares about the movements of her hands.

When the surrounding arms were almost as good as they could get, the almonds wrapped the fruit in their robes and carefully climbed down the trunk.

The plum tree was not very tall, about three meters in size, and when it saw that it was only one meter above the ground, the almond let go and jumped down.

Fourteen, who was in the distance, seemed to take a few steps forward, and when he saw her land safely, he pretended that nothing had happened.

Almond saw it in his eyes, and he didn't want to complain about this paralyzed face anymore.

She shook the fruit in her robe, and the weight was still a little heavy.

She was very satisfied, and was about to leave, but she seemed to smell a fishy smell.

The nose, which had previously been overshadowed by the scent of flowers, has suddenly become sensitive.

Almond looked around suspiciously, but couldn't find the source of the smell.

What is it?

This strange smell makes people almost sick.

Almond was puzzled, but with flowers in her clothes, it was inconvenient to linger, and she stepped forward to walk back.

I had only walked two steps, but it was as if I had kicked something.

Almond kicked away the lush weeds with her foot and looked down to see what it looked like a hairpin.

She picked it up in her hand and looked at it, frowning.

It was a silver hairpin, but it was stained with blood, which concealed its original appearance.

How did it end up in this place?

And......

The bloodstains on it make people think about it.

Almond looked around again, and his suspicious gaze fell on the well beside her.

She swallowed and walked over with a thunderous heartbeat.

She glanced at the well, and after just one glance, her hair stood on end, and she took a few steps back in horror.

Perhaps she was too panicked, and she suddenly lost her footing, and her body fell to the ground.

Almond came to her senses and screamed.

"What's wrong?"

Fourteen, who had been paying attention to her, walked over quickly, and was finally willing to say a word.

Almond was not in the mood to joke at this time, she stretched out her finger to the well, opened her mouth, but almost vomited with reluctance.

After calming down for a while, she stumbled and said, "That...... There's ...... There are dead people! ”

Fourteen walked over to the well and looked at it, his expression still unchanged, only a slight frown.

"I will report this matter to the prince, you don't have to worry about it."

Almond nodded, patting her chest with palpitations.

Under the well, there was a white skeleton, dead for I don't know how long.

The fishy smell in the yard also came from there.

At the thought of this, Almond felt that she was starting to sick to her stomach again, and quickly left the place.

It wasn't until she returned to her courtyard and spread out all the plums to dry in the courtyard that she calmed down and thought about what had just happened.

The bloody hairpins hidden in the grass, the white bones in the wells, all this shows that this is a murder.

Such a thing could have happened in the palace.

Who died? And who killed it?

Doesn't everyone in the palace know?

This series of questions surrounded Almond's heart, and his little face was particularly solemn.

"What's wrong? What are you thinking? ”

Almond was thinking about it when the sudden sound frightened her to her feet.

It wasn't until she saw that it was Sheng Guangji that she breathed a sigh of relief.

It's really that everything she saw before was too terrifying, and she was a little shocked now.

Looking at the appearance of the prince, it seems that he doesn't know about it yet, he should have just come back from the palace, and he came to her, and he hasn't seen fourteen yet.

Thinking of this, Almond told me what had happened this afternoon.

Sheng Guangji listened without changing his face, and only nodded lightly after listening.

"The king knows."

Almond, on the contrary, was more anxious than him.

"Why don't you ask the government to investigate this matter? It's too dangerous for something like this to happen in the palace. ”

Sheng Guangji shook his head and rejected her suggestion.

"Let the government investigate, I'm afraid it will make everyone in the palace panic, this matter will be investigated by the king, you don't have to worry about it."

"Hmm."

Although Almond was anxious in her heart, the master of the palace spoke, and she was not good at overstepping her bounds.

It's just that Almond always felt that something was not quite right.

Fourteen asked her to leave it alone, and the prince also asked her to leave it alone.

She is an unidentified person in the mansion, everyone only knows that she is a friend of the prince, what can she do?

Even if she wanted to, she didn't have the ability.

Anyway, it seems to be over.

The house is calm and calm, and no one is abnormal.

And Sheng Guangji didn't mention to her how this matter was handled and what the follow-up was like.

Almond still had palpitations in her heart, feeling that the palace was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Until another day, after Sheng Guangji went to the palace, Almond went out again.

She never forgot that incident, and I was afraid that it would haunt her until she knew the result.

So, after making a lot of psychological preparation, Almond decided to take a look again.